The Pope’s Casual Friday - The American Spectator:
"As Catholics headed into the holiest days of the year, they woke up to the headline, “Hell Does Not Exist, Says Pope Francis.” In an interview with the Italian journalist Eugenio Scalfari, Pope Francis declared that the unrepentant don’t suffer in hell but simply “disappear.”
As usual, the Vatican is tamping down the remark’s controversy not by conceding the unreliability of the pope as a teacher of the faith but by questioning the reliability of the journalist. Scalfari’s report is not a “faithful transcription” of the pope’s comments, said the Vatican. Never mind that the pope has made the exact same comment before. As I wrote last year in The Political Pope, “While saying confidently that atheists can go to heaven, he has flirted with theological concepts suggesting that no one goes to hell. The wicked, he told an Italian interviewer, don’t suffer ‘punishment’ but ‘annihilation,’ which means ‘their journey is finished.’”
As I document in the book, Francis delights in that kind of spit-balling, subversive, dilettantish heterodoxy. In Scalfari, a Catholic turned atheistic communist, Francis found his Boswell. "
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GJ - Pope Francis has adopted the best approach to making his delusions into official policy. He simply ignores any problems with what he says. If he heatedly denied the article or engaged the public in the topic, he would draw more attention to his positions.
When he was first elected, the world's media began sighing over what a wonderful, fresh, new leader he is. That was a major signal to everyone about his service past and future, to his Father Below.
